Improvement in operating railway signals



ROBERT G1DLEY..

improvement in RailwayS ignals. No .124,8 06. PatentedMarch19,1872.

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ROBERT GIDLEY, OF MOORES MILLS, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT lN OPERATING RAILWAY SIGNALS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 124,806, dated March19, 1872.

,Moores Mills, in the county of Dutchess and State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Railroad Signals; and dohereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descriptionthereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing and to theletters of reference marked thereon.

The nature of my invention consists in the construction and arrangementof arailroad signal,,as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my inventionappertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe itsconstruction and operation, referring to the annexed drawing which formsapart of this specification, and in which- Figure l is a side view of myrailroad signal. Fig. 2 is a partial View of the opposite side, and Fig.3 is an end view of the signal.

A A represent two upright posts, connected by means of cross-bars B B,and carrying at their upper ends each a lamp, 0. Over each lamp, orrather around each lamp and the upper ends of the posts is a metal cap,D, attached to a bar, E, which runs down along the side of the post, apin, a, from the post passing through a vertical slot in said bar E. Tothe lower cross-bar B, and on the same side as the bars E E, are pivotedtwo levers,G G, by means of one bolt'or screw, 1), passing through thecenters of said levers and into the center of said cross-bar. The endsof the lever G pass between the posts AA and the bars E E,

'while the ends'of the lever G are close to the outside of said bars,and on the inner lever G is a bar, d, attached, of the same thickness asthe bars E and of the same length as the distance between them,thusfilling up the space.

Upon both the inner and outer sides of the bars E E are projections e e,beveled on their under or lower edges, as shown in Fig. 1, so that bythe working of either lever one of the bars E may be raised to cause thecap D to surround the lamp (3 and hide the light. When either one ofsaid caps is raised in this manner theinner lever G, supporting thesliding bar attached to it, may be held by a notched bar, H, pivoted tothe side of the post, and thrown forward so that the notch catches onthe lever. The other cap may then be raised bythe other lever G. On theopposite side of each postA are pivoted an arm, I, and lever J,connected together by a rod, f. Upon the arm I is a flagstaff, K, withflag L, which thus, by means of the lever J, can be thrown up or out,asoccasion may require, for signaling in daytime.

When the flag is thrown up it is held by the notched bar H catching onthe lever J in the same manner as above described for the lever G.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The combination of the posts A A, crossbars B B ,lamps G 0, caps D D,slotted sliding bars E E, pins a a, projections e e, levers G G, andnotched bars H H, all constructed and arranged to operate substantiallyas and for the purposes herein set forth.

2. The combination of the posts A A, arms I I, staffs K K, flags L L,connecting-rods ff, levers J J, and notched bars H H, all constructedand arranged to operate substantial 1y as and for the purposes hereinset forth.

7 ,ROBERT GIDLEY.

WVitnesses:

JONATHAN GIDLEY, CHARLES 1). LANSING.

